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Complete the sentence about Galway with the correct year: Located near an earlier settlement, Galway grew around a fortification built by the King of Connacht, Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair in ______.
Complete the sentence about Waterford with the correct year: In ______, Diarmait Mac Murchada, the deposed King of Leinster, failed in an attempt to take Waterford.
Complete the sentence about Waterford with the correct year: In furtherance of the Norman invasion of Ireland, King Henry II of England landed at Waterford in ______.
Complete the sentence about Swords, Dublin with the correct year: In ______, Swords became the county town of the new county of Fingal after the abolition of County Dublin as an administrative county.
Complete the sentence about Swords, Dublin with the correct year: In ______, upon the completion of the County Hall, senior executive offices moved there from Parnell Square in Dublin city centre.
Complete the sentence about Swords, Dublin with the correct year: In June ______, the RNLI Ireland officially opened a new all-Ireland headquarters at Airside Business Park, within greater Swords.
Complete the sentence about Bray, County Wicklow with the correct year: Bray features on the ______ map "A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles" by Abraham Ortelius as "Brey".
Complete the sentence about Bray, County Wicklow with the correct year: William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath purchased the Killruddery Estate in Bray in ______ with the establishment of the Earl title.
Complete the sentence about Navan with the correct year: Since the Official Languages Act ______, both the Irish and English names have had equal status, as in the rest of the State.
Complete the sentence about Navan with the correct year: The town's Post Office on Trimgate Street was built in ______ on the site of an earlier post office.
Complete the sentence about Kilkenny with the correct year: William Marshall, Lord of Leinster, gave Kilkenny a charter as a town in ______.
Complete the sentence about Kilkenny with the correct year: The Statutes of Kilkenny, passed at Kilkenny in ______, aimed to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.
Complete the sentence about Kilkenny with the correct year: In ______, King James I of England granted Kilkenny a Royal Charter, giving it the status of a city.
Complete the sentence about Ennis with the correct year: In ______, following the arrival of Franciscan monks, King Donnchadh O'Brien ordered the construction of an extensive church which he later don…
Complete the sentence about Ennis with the correct year: The Friary quickly expanded becoming a centre for theological studies, and by ______ had 600 students and 350 Friars in residence.
Complete the sentence about Ennis with the correct year: Ennis received a grant to hold fairs and markets in ______ and later a Charter for a Corporation with a Provost, Free Burgesses, Commonalty and…
Complete the sentence about Tralee with the correct year: Tralee is known for the Rose of Tralee International Festival, which has been held annually in August since ______.
Complete the sentence about Tralee with the correct year: John Fitz-Thomas FitzGerald founded the monastery of the Dominican order and was buried there in ______.
Complete the sentence about Tralee with the correct year: The medieval town was burnt in ______ in retribution for the Desmond Rebellions against Elizabeth I.
Complete the sentence about Newbridge, County Kildare with the correct year: Noble and Keenan's map of Kildare ______, drawn before the town was started, marks 'The New Bridge' in the vicinity of 'Old…
Complete the sentence about Newbridge, County Kildare with the correct year: Great Connell Priory was an important Priory, founded in ______ by the Augustinian Canons.
Complete the sentence about Newbridge, County Kildare with the correct year: The earliest known mention of Newbridge was by traveller and bookseller John Dunton in ______, though he does not refer to…
Complete the sentence about Newbridge, County Kildare with the correct year: The first bridge was destroyed by floods in ______, and William Chapman, an engineer on the Grand Canal extension to Naas…
Complete the sentence about Newbridge, County Kildare with the correct year: From ______, various cavalry regiments were stationed at Newbridge and brought much business to the town.
Complete the sentence about Portlaoise with the correct year: An Act of Parliament established the town proper during the reign of Mary I in ______.
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: In ______, Henry IV granted Naas its first charter as a corporation, consisting of Portreeves, Burgesses and Commonality.
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: In ______ King Henry authorised the town to collect tolls at all entrances to the town, with the money being used for fortification of town wall…
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: In the Middle Ages, before it settled permanently in Dublin, the Parliament of Ireland occasionally met in Naas, as in ______.
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: Saint David's Castle, a 13th-century Norman castle, was first built c. ______, although the present structure is a fortified house of the 18th c…
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: In ______, Elizabeth I granted the town a new charter, creating the role of Sovereign of the town.
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: On 3 March ______, Lord Rory O'More burnt Naas, to avenge his relatives who had been killed by English authorities.
Complete the sentence about Naas with the correct year: In ______, Robert Ashe, Sovereign of Naas, says on oath that the charter granted the town by Elizabeth I had been accidentally burned.
Complete the sentence about Wexford with the correct year: An Anglo-Frisian language, known as Yola, was commonly spoken in south Wexford from the time of the Norman invasion in ______ until it began…
Complete the sentence about Wexford with the correct year: While Yola was extinct by the 1870s, its last speaker, a fisherman from Kilmore Quay named Jack Devereux, died in ______.
Complete the sentence about Wexford with the correct year: As a result, the town was sacked by the English Parliamentarians during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in ______.
Complete the sentence about Wexford with the correct year: In ______ Solomon Richards was appointed Governor, but he was dismissed and imprisoned following the Restoration the next year.
Complete the sentence about Sligo with the correct year: The Ordnance Survey letters of ______ state that "cart loads of shells were found underground in many places within the town where houses now s…
Complete the sentence about Clonmel with the correct year: On 17 September ______, while a fugitive during the last stages of the Second Desmond Rebellion, Fr.
Complete the sentence about Clonmel with the correct year: On 30 April ______ he was tied to the tail of a horse and taken to the market place, where he was partially hanged.
Complete the sentence about Clonmel with the correct year: Muiris Mac Ionrachtaigh was beatified by Pope John Paul II, along with 16 other Irish Catholic Martyrs, on 27 September ______.
Complete the sentence about Killarney with the correct year: In ______, Killarney was named Ireland's tidiest town and the cleanest town in the country by Irish Business Against Litter.
Complete the sentence about Cobh with the correct year: The combined conurbation was renamed to "Queenstown", in ______, during a visit by Queen Victoria.
Complete the sentence about Cobh with the correct year: The name was changed to Cobh, during the Irish War of Independence, following the passing of a motion by the local administrative council on 2 J…
Complete the sentence about Cobh with the correct year: In ______, the Dublin Castle administration built a fort, later to become known as Cove Fort, to the east of the village.
Complete the sentence about Cobh with the correct year: The settlement was first referred to as Cove village in ______ by Smith the historian who said: "it was inhabited by seamen and revenue official…
Complete the sentence about Cobh with the correct year: The Cork directory of ______ shows about thirty businesses in the town, including one butcher and one draper.
Complete the sentence about Dingle with the correct year: By the thirteenth century, more goods were being exported through Dingle than Limerick, and in ______ an ordinance of Henry III imposed custom…
Complete the sentence about Cashel, County Tipperary with the correct year: The Synod of Cashel of ______ was organised by Henry II of England.
Complete the sentence about Tullamore with the correct year: The town's most famous export is Tullamore Dew – an Irish whiskey distilled by Tullamore Distillery – that can be traced back to ______.
Complete the sentence about Tullamore with the correct year: Charles Moore, Lord Tullamore, grandson of Thomas, eventually regained possession of the estate and when he died in ______ it went via his…
Complete the sentence about Athenry with the correct year: The earliest remaining building in the town is Athenry Castle which was built sometime before ______ by Meyler de Bermingham.
Complete the sentence about Athenry with the correct year: In ______, the Dominican Priory was founded, and became an important center for learning and teaching.
Complete the sentence about Monaghan with the correct year: In ______, Monaghan Town, along with the rest of the Rossmore Estate, became the property of the Westenra family.
Complete the sentence about Monaghan with the correct year: The ruins of the castle were blown up by Monaghan County Council in ______.
Complete the sentence about Cavan with the correct year: The area saw little violence during the ______-22 troubles in Ulster.
Complete the sentence about Castlebar with the correct year: The town was granted a charter of incorporation in ______ by James I of England.
Complete the sentence about Castlebar with the correct year: The Linen Hall, established as a clearing house for local linen materials, was completed in ______.
Complete the sentence about Castlebar with the correct year: The Irish National Land League was founded by Michael Davitt, of Straide in County Mayo, at the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar on 21 October _…
Complete the sentence about Tuam with the correct year: In ______, Aedh O'Connor defeated Amalgaid ua Flaithbertaigh, King of Iar Connacht, making the O'Connors provincial kings of Connacht.
Complete the sentence about Tuam with the correct year: About ______ Tairrdelbach founded an Augustinian priory in Tuam with possession over three church sites in Ciarraige Airne, east County Mayo.
Complete the sentence about Ballina, County Mayo with the correct year: According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the first signs of settlement on the site of the town date from around ______, when an Aug…
Complete the sentence about Ballina, County Mayo with the correct year: Ballina was founded as a garrison town in ______ by O'Hara, Lord Tyrawley.
Complete the sentence about Ballina, County Mayo with the correct year: During the Irish Rebellion of ______, a small column of French soldiers advanced through the estate, as part of a reconnaissance…
Complete the sentence about Rock of Cashel with the correct year: In ______, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church.
Complete the sentence about Rock of Cashel with the correct year: In ______, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of…
Complete the sentence about Cliffs of Moher with the correct year: The writer Thomas Johnson Westropp referred to it in ______ as Moher Uí Ruis or Moher Uí Ruidhin.
Complete the sentence about Skellig Michael with the correct year: UNESCO designated Skellig Michael a World Heritage Site in ______.
Complete the sentence about Aran Islands with the correct year: In ______ the islands were briefly captured and held by Jacobite privateer Thomas Vaughan, whose crew plundered Protestant settlements t…
Complete the sentence about Aran Islands with the correct year: In ______, John Millington Synge started spending his summers in the Aran Islands.
Complete the sentence about Blasket Islands with the correct year: The islands were inhabited until ______ by a completely Irish-speaking population and today are part of the Gaeltacht.
Complete the sentence about Blasket Islands with the correct year: The Ó Suilleabháin family were reluctant to leave, and became the final family to depart Great Blasket Island in ______.
Complete the sentence about Blasket Islands with the correct year: In ______ politician Charles Haughey purchased Inishvickillane from the descendants of the Ó Dalaigh family, who had lived on the isl…
Complete the sentence about Blasket Islands with the correct year: In ______, he introduced legislation to turn the Blasket Islands into a national park, including powers of compulsory purchase order.
Complete the sentence about Achill Island with the correct year: The island, which has been connected to the mainland by a bridge since ______, is served by Michael Davitt Bridge, between the villages…
Complete the sentence about Valentia Island with the correct year: The first attempt in ______ to land a cable from Ballycarbery Strand on the mainland just east of Valentia Island ended in disappoint…
Complete the sentence about Valentia Island with the correct year: Transatlantic telegraph cables operated from Valentia Island for one hundred years, ending with Western Union International terminati…
Complete the sentence about Valentia Island with the correct year: After many rainy and cloudy days, the first transatlantic longitude signals were exchanged between Foilhommerum and Heart's Content o…
Complete the sentence about Valentia Island with the correct year: On the ______ Mercator chart used by the famous pilot, it was labelled Valencia.
Complete the sentence about Connemara with the correct year: The last priests held on both islands were finally released following the Stuart Restoration in ______.
Complete the sentence about Dingle Peninsula with the correct year: The peninsula is known for the MV Ranga, a Spanish cargo vessel that wrecked on the coast in ______.
Complete the sentence about Dingle Peninsula with the correct year: Far and Away, a ______ film directed by Ron Howard, was partly filmed on the peninsula.
Complete the sentence about Slea Head with the correct year: On 11 March ______, the Spanish container ship, Ranga, was wrecked at Dunmore Head, close to Slea Head after losing power in a storm.
Complete the sentence about Malin Head with the correct year: In ______ a new Meteorological station was built beside the coastguard station by Met Éireann.
Complete the sentence about Malin Head with the correct year: A military watchtower was built on Altnadarrow in ______, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Complete the sentence about Malin Head with the correct year: Around ______, a signal station used by the Marconi Company was built close to the old Napoleonic watchtower.
Complete the sentence about Croagh Patrick with the correct year: In ______ it was rediscovered that, from the Boheh stone, the setting sun appears to roll down the slope of Croagh Patrick in late Apr…
Complete the sentence about Carrauntoohil with the correct year: In ______, the cross was cut down by unknown persons, who filmed the felling and said it was in protest against the Catholic Church.
Complete the sentence about Wicklow Mountains with the correct year: The Wicklow Mountains National Park was established in ______ to conserve the local biodiversity and landscape.
Complete the sentence about Wicklow Mountains with the correct year: Wicklow was not established as a county until ______; before that it had been part of County Dublin.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: A modern replica of that ship was built in ______ and is currently located in Roskilde, Denmark.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: At the Synod of Rath Breasail in ______, Glendalough was designated as one of the two dioceses of North Leinster.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: Laurence O'Toole, born in ______, became Abbot of Glendalough and was well known for his sanctity and hospitality.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: Even after his appointment as Archbishop of Dublin in ______, he returned occasionally to Glendalough, to the solitude of St.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: In ______, the Annals of Tigernach report that Glendalough was 'plundered by the foreigners'.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: In ______, the dioceses of Glendalough and Dublin were united.
Complete the sentence about Glendalough with the correct year: The destruction of the settlement by English forces in ______ left it a ruin but it continued as a church of local importance and a place…
Complete the sentence about Brú na Bóinne with the correct year: Since ______, the site has been a World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO as "Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of t…
Complete the sentence about Blarney Castle with the correct year: The castle was besieged during the Irish Confederate Wars and was seized in ______ by Parliamentarian forces under Lord Broghill.
Complete the sentence about Bunratty Castle with the correct year: A later reference in the state papers, dating to ______ gives de Muscegros the right to hold markets and an annual fair at Bunratty.
Complete the sentence about Bunratty Castle with the correct year: In ______, while De Clare was away in England, the site was captured and destroyed.

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